/oracle-idcs-org-provisioning

Oracle IDCS Org Provisioning

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When to Use

Load this skill for: the user asks to "map IDCS groups to orgs", "provision org_members from identity domains", "fix Better Auth active org", or "bootstrap first admin".

Prefer this skill only for its named domain. For broader OCI architecture triage, start with oci/best-practices as the router.

Use when login succeeds but tenant, role, or org membership still has to become real in Oracle.

Do NOT load when

• problem is Fastify header bridging or cookie/session forwarding
• problem is base OIDC setup, callback URLs, or trusted origins
• task is renaming IDCS concepts across an existing codebase

Three-stage flow

1. Capture IDCS claims during OAuth profile mapping (mapProfileToUser)
2. Gate session in session.create.before when explicit allow-rules exist
3. Resolve org and upsert org_members in session.create.after

NEVER

• Never combine access gating with role mapping — they are separate decisions with separate failure modes
• Never SELECT then INSERT into org_members — use atomic MERGE INTO or concurrent logins corrupt membership
• Never consume cached claims in before and expect them still available in after — use stash/peek/consume pattern
• Never bypass existing membership precedence with a newer fallback — re-login instability follows
• Never assume missing groups claim is a provisioning bug — check scope config and IDCS app first

Expert decision trees

Access gate vs. role mapping

These answer different questions:

• Access gate (before hook): can this user enter at all? Controlled by DB-configured allow-groups. Fail closed only when explicit allow-groups exist; fail open otherwise.
• Role mapping (after hook): which role do they get? Controlled by group→role mapping and env defaults.

Mixing them produces false lockouts: a user passes the access gate but gets the wrong role because the gating logic short-circuited role resolution.

Org resolution precedence

Always use this order — never skip a level for "simplicity":

1. Existing membership in org_members
2. Tenant-name → org map (DB-configured)
3. DB-configured default org
4. Env default org

Changing this order mid-deployment breaks re-login for users who were previously assigned via a higher-precedence rule.

First-admin bootstrap

Fresh installs have zero admin-group config. If an org has no admin yet, promote the first provisioned user to admin once. Without this gate, the system is unbootstrappable — no one can configure allow-groups because no one has admin rights.

Claims cache across hook boundary

Hooks run in separate request lifecycles. The claim set from mapProfileToUser is not available in session.create.after without explicit passing:

• stash(sub, claims) in profile mapping
• peek(sub) in before (read without clearing)
• consume(sub) in after (read and clear)

Using a short-lived in-memory cache keyed by sub is the standard pattern. TTL of ~30s is sufficient.

Failure modes by decision point

Scripts

# Preview group → role mapping
node scripts/preview-group-role-mapping.js "PortalAdmins,Developers"

# Preview org resolution
node scripts/verify-org-resolution.js --tenant sandbox --map "sandbox:org-123,prod:org-999" --default-org org-000

Arguments

• $ARGUMENTS: Optional provisioning focus
  • tenant-map — focus on tenant→org resolution
  • first-admin — focus on bootstrap logic
  • (empty) — evaluate the full IDCS claim → org membership flow